Posts Tagged ‘beans’

Last weekend, I finally finished digging my last garden bed! This late addition to the summer garden now houses the extra tomatillo and basil seedlings that didn’t fit elsewhere.

Now that I’m finally finished constructing beds, it’s time to lock my shovel in the shed lest I be tempted to keep digging. It’s also past time to weed some flower beds, dead-head the roses, and basically switch to maintenance mode.

Phew!!!

I have already been enjoying some of the fruits of my labor: mostly squash, zucchini and green beans. And I’m excited to say that in the war against squash bugs, it’s currently MaryNell 1; evil bugs 0. Who knows how long that will last, but I have managed to can 14 pints of hot pickled squash as well as 4 pints of zucchini relish. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the squash I’ve eaten and shared. It’s been a good year!

Still to come in the garden are corn (pictured above), potatoes and tomatoes:

I’m looking forward to making some salsa with tomatillos…

… and jalepenos:

I can’t wait to try some fresh lima beans …

… and to figure out how to season purple hull peas without oil or fatback:

I’ve been harvesting the bush beans for awhile, but just noticed that my yard-long noodles are starting to appear …

… as are the cucumbers!

To be honest, I’ve been harvesting pickling cucumbers for the past week. On tomorrow’s agenda: refrigerator pickles!

So while I wait for the rest of the summer goodies to appear, I might as well steam up the last of the chard and snow peas. Writing about all this food has made me hungry!